{"id":136706,"date":"2018-06-10T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136706"},"modified":"2018-06-11T18:26:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T00:26:54","slug":"what-a-way-to-run-a-dairy-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/10\/what-a-way-to-run-a-dairy-industry.html","title":{"rendered":"What a way to run a dairy industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, let me get this straight.<\/p>\n

In Canada, the government restricts the overall supply of dairy — controlling both domestic production and imports. As a result, Canadian dairy farmers are quite well off, the cost (about 40% higher) is spread out amongst consumers, but the consumers are generally okay with paying higher prices to have a healthy dairy industry that includes both large producers and small mom-n-pop concerns.<\/p>\n

In the US, dairy producers are encouraged to produce as much as they can, leading to a glut on the market, prices crashing below the cost of production, bankrupt farms, rising suicide rates, and farmers literally dumping 100 million gallons of milk last year … and then the government gets into various payment schemes to cover some of them them for their losses, leading to an incremental tax burden that everyone hates.<\/p>\n

And Canada still ends up importing more milk than the US imports. And US restrictions on dairy imports from Canada remain significantly more stringent as a percent of total domestic production than the Canadian ones.<\/p>\n

So, naturally, Trump (along with congresscritters from dairy states) blames the whole situation on Canada and is ticked off that the Canadians are being really, really unfair.<\/p>\n


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